Means for protecting checks



Oct. 26, 1926. 1,604,740

J. J. DUFFIE MEANS FOR PROTECTING CHECKS 7 Filed April 50. 1923 I IPulLApELPmA,PA." 19 Y (Km xnl aqgnNfli finallfiauk I RYToTHE I oRbER OFPatented Get. 25, 1926.

eem-co JOHN J; DUFFIE; OF'IBROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

MEANS FOR PROTECTING CHECKS.

Application filed April 80, 1923. Serial No.-635,648.

The object of my invention is to protect a check, or other negotiablepaper, in which a single impression is made to indicate the amountthereof. This object is attained by scarifying the check on linesdirectly above and below the line indicating the amount in order toprevent the insertion of a second line indicating an additional amount.

The invention also relates to mechanism for scarifying the checksimultaneously with printing the amount.

In the accompanying drawings: Fig. 1 is a view of a check with a givenamount noted thereon and having a scarified line above and below theamount; Fig. 2 is a sectional plan view on the line 22, Fig. 3, of thebase portion of a check-writing machine illustrating one means ofcarrying out the invention; and Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view onthe line 33, Fig. 2.

Referring to the drawings, 1 is a check having a payees line 2 and aspace 3 for the printed amount of the check. In order to prevent theaddition of a second line to the printed line indicating the amount,protecting lines 1 and 5 are printed directly above and below theprinted line indicating the amount. These lines are preferably'scarified in order to prevent erasure.

In Figs. 2 and 8 is shown an apparatus for printing and scarifying theprotecting lines simultaneously with printing and scarifying the lineindicating the amount.

10 designates the base of the machine and 11 designates the casingextending over the base and spaced a sufficient distance there from toform a passage 12 for the checle The precise construction and mode ofmounting this type drum may vary, but a convenient and suitableconstruction, permitting rotation of the type drum and its depression toeffect the printing impression, is illustrated and desoribedin expiredLetters Patent do. 322,989 dated July 25, 1885, and granted to CharlesSpiro. Under the present construction shaft 13 and the type drum 13 areheld in a sli htly inclinedposition, so that depression to printingposition shall bring the axis of the shaft and drum and consequently thetype faces, parallel to the face of the check to be printed. The drawingis essentially diagrammatic, since the features just noted are old andwel1- known in the art, and detailed description hence unnecessaryherein.

13 designates a type drum mounted on a shaft 13*. 1 1 designates theinking rollers for supplying ink to the faces'of the type drum '13. 15-designates a lever made fast upon a rod or shaft 15 journaled in thebase 10 as shown in'Fig. 2, and carrying a rotating platen 16. "Securedto and eirtending upwardly from the rod or shaft 15 is a lever 15 bywhich the shaft 15 may be rocked to elevate to printing position theplaten 16. The platen is normally held below the print ing position by aspring 15, here shown as a coiled spring encircling shaft 152 and of thecheck may be effected by forming either the type faces or the platensurface with the searifying blades, points, or the like, familiar inthis art. I

18 designates a lever carrying two scarifying rollers 19, which arespaced apart sothat when an impression is made by these rollers therewill be a clear line between theimpressions and the impression made bythe roller platen 16. This lever is pivotally mounted on a bar 27 and onthis bar is a spring 28 that engages the lever 18 and yieldingly holdsthe rollersout of action.

20 designates an, inking roller and 21 designates an intermediate rollersupplied with ink by the inking roller so that when a check is fedthrough the machine and the lever 18 is moved to raise the rollers 19 incontact with the check, the paper of the check will be scarified aboveand below the line indicating the amount and an impressionw'ill also bemade according to a predetermined design.

The forwardly or outwardly extending arm 22 of lever 18 carries a hollowhandle 23 provided at its inner end with a projecting stud 24. The innerend of handle 23 is closed except for a central openingsufficient topermit the passage through it of said arm. A portion of arm 22 of lever18 is encircled by a helical spring 25, one endiof which abuts againstthe inner end Wall of the handle, While the other end bears against ahead 26 secured in any convenient Way upon the outer end of arm 22.Spring 25 is placed under compression in assembling the parts, and byreason of its tendency to expand, causes the stud 24 to move forwardinto a slot 2 in the base 10, when handle 23 is depressed to raise therolls 19 to effective operative position. In order to .aaintain stud 2%in alinement with slot 2%, arm 22 of lever 18 may be longitudinallyslotted as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 3, to receive a pin 29driven into a radial hole in the closed inner end of handle 23. T hesame result could of course be attained in any equivalent Way, as byemploying a polygonal head,26, and making the opening in the handle ofcorresponding form.

I claim:

1. The combination in apparatus for making a safety impression on acheck, of means for impressing and printing the amount of the check andscarifying the paper Where so impressed and printed; and means forimpressing and printing a safety line directly above and below the lineindicating the amount, the latter impressing and printing means beingmovable to and from effective operating position independently of theamount impressing and printing means.

2. The combination of apparatus for impressing and printing a lineindicating the amount of a check; a lever carrying two impressionrollers spaced a greater distance apart than the Width of the lineindicating the amount; means for making an impression ona line With therollers; and means for 40 raising the rollers into impressing position.

JOHN J. DUFFIE.

